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Jun 2016
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Sivaram: Green tech's death valley

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Varun Sivaram, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, says that when it comes to clean energy, the physicists and engineers need to learn how to entice investors. He joins Tom Keene and Michael McKee on Bloomberg Surveillance.

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